The Agrinautica

Shot by Reagan
   So I wake up yesterday at like 8pm to hear someone saying "someone got shot by Reagan!" and I'm like "thats odd... and here I thought he was dead."

   Sometime shortly after five Kristy and I were walking back to her place after our final when police cars when we saw a policecar or two drive by with sirens on, and a firetruck being escorted by a (police?) car. Obviously something was up on campus.

   Kristy gets home to hear from her roommate Jadine that she had walked past a body under a white sheet by the Regan freshman dorms.

   Reportedly there a (homeless?) man aged 18-20 loitering around between the dorms and some coops, acting really weird and scaring people that walked by. Someone called police. Police arrived shortly, and when they approached the individual, the individual produced a handgun and proceeded to shoot at the officers. Officers returned fire, at least ten shots were exchanged, and the man died of multiple gunshot wounds on the scene. No officers were hit.

   This is the first shooting death on UC Davis campus. This is the first officer-related death on campus. Kristy and I passed close enough to the scene to see the emergency vehicles from between the buildings, probably not more than ten minutes after it happened. Here is a picture of the scene. The daviswiki entry on "Violent Crime" has links to more news articles on this incident..


Those Elections Hearings
   During last Sunday's Campus Judicial Board hearing for the Elections Committee, I decided someone ought to draw the courtroom sketch one often sees in the news of trials. As no one else was about to do it it fell upon my own unfortunate artistic abilities to make this rendering.

;nbsp;  So thats the first hearing. Obviously I am completely lacking in skills of an artist. Actually I could draw about this good in third grade, which was pretty good back then, but I haven't improved since. On the right we have the Elections Committee, on the left are the Orwellians, and right behind them a fellow who insisted he be identified as "Barnabus Truman." In the middle one has the hearing tribunal, who were not intended to look like monkeys.

   This is roughly what the room looked like after the Orwellian opening statement in the second hearing.


UCLA Revisited
;nbsp;  Pictures are finally up from the St Lucia/Julfest Swedish party thing I was at down at UCLA.
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   So I had to create a new photobucket account because photobucket has totally sold out. Not only did the lower the quotas allocated to free accounts, but they raised the paid account price from $5 (forever, or until they sell out apparently) to $9 (for three months). Consequently, my account is now at 282.1% of my quota.


Previously on EMOSNAIL
   Year Ago Sunday: The great Berlin wall of livejournal, invite codes, came down! To think that was only a year ago.
   Year Ago Yesterday: Saddam Captured - and uncodified moral rights are "nonsense on stilts." Also roommate bonding, winter break at last, and ... the theft of $6,000 of materiels?


In Other News: In response to an obscure previous post, an anonymous commenter has delivered to me the crushing advise that I "get a life!!!!!!!!!" Adding the epithet "Non Supreme Court Chief Justice". Several things are distinct about this incident: the detracter appears to be barely literate, with negligible command of the fine art of insult, and they appear to have fixated upon my position as Chief Justice. As such I'm inclined to believe they are associated with the Elections Committee. What's more baffling is why 169.237.101.156 decided to leave the comment to that specific post, as it was posted last February and doesn't look likely to be unusually insulting to anyone in particular. Needless to say, I was brought nearly to tears by the proposition that I ought to "get a life."